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DaneOfKnowtify

Re:Ask HN: Is your Slack-based product profitable? on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:47PM (#11021947)
I wont share any specifics on any of our customers but happy to share high level stats if you want to email me in a few months. It might be interesting to poll 20-50 apps 3 months after launch and turn it into some sort of visualization.

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Re:Ask HN: Is your Slack-based product profitable? on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:23PM (#11021761)
Dane from https://relay.knowtify.io

We only launched a week ago so it's definitely too early to say if we'll be profitable if you factor in dev time, expenses for our server, db, tools...and CPA. But we do have some strong early interest and paying users so we're excited about Relay.

One of the big reasons we built Relay is to extend functionality for teams using Knowtify and integrating through Segment. Since launching Relay, our Knowtify signups have at least doubled.

I think next time it would be great to partner with another small team to get at least 1 more developer involved. That way we could be slightly more ambitious in our scope and give the live blog a little more attention throughout the day.

But overall, it was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to the next hackday.

This is a project team Knowtify worked on last Friday. We live blogged the event using Reddit Live. http://www.knowtify.io/live

There are a few ideas behind the live hackday. 1) We wanted to build a product ontop of our API 2) This gave us a better understanding of our app...read more. http://blog.knowtify.io/post/96460808026/the-gekko-daily-dig...